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17/12/1990 Jean-Bertrand Aristide wins Haiti’s first free election

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HAITI: JEAN-BERTRAND ARISTIDE WINS ELECTIONS

Jean-Bertrand Aristide is a Haitian priest and politician who became Haiti's first democratically elected president. He won the Haitian general election with 67% of the vote and was briefly president of Haiti, until a September 1991 military coup. The coup regime collapsed in 1994 under US pressure and threat of force.